Barb Wheeler
The Illinois General Assembly is finally back to work now that the primary elections have concluded.
The News-Gazette, published in Champaign, picked up on one of State Rep. Barbara Wheeler’s bills.
House Bill 4446 would prohibit Illinois colleges from asking prospective students if they had an arrest record.
Here’s what the Legislative Digest says about the content of the bill:
Creates the College Admission Inquiries Act.
Provides that during the admission decision-making process, a college (defined as an institution of higher education authorized to confer degrees in this State) may not inquire about arrests that did not result in a criminal conviction and criminal convictions that have been sealed or expunged or make any inquiry or consider information about any arrest or criminal accusation of an individual that was followed by a termination of that criminal action or proceeding in favor of the individual.
Provides that a college may not make any inquiry or consider information about an individual’s past criminal conviction or convictions at any time during the admission decision-making process.
Provides that after an individual has been admitted as a student, a college may make inquiries about and consider information about the individual’s past criminal conviction history for the purpose of offering support counseling and services.
Provides that a college may also make inquiries about and consider information about the individual’s past criminal conviction history for the purpose of making decisions about participation in activities and aspects of campus life associated with the individual’s status as a student.
Provides that a college may not use the information to rescind an offer of admission. Provides that a college is not required to make inquiries into or consider an individual’s criminal conviction history for any reason. Effective immediately.
House Committee Amendment No. 1
Provides that a college’s authority to make inquiries and consider information about an individual’s criminal conviction history for specified purposes is subject to federal, State, or local law.
The bill is now on the House floor after 16-1 approval in the House Higher Education Committee.
Good Grief!
Don’t parents of college age children have enough to worry about.
Who wants their kids to attend college with convicted criminals?
We are inundated with stories of sexual abuse crimes on campus, and how students are traumatized by political images, Halloween Costumes, and ethnic titled meals or parties.
Might as well let them be exposed to real criminals to ensure a well rounded college experience.
College age “children.”
Come on.
It needs a much more catchier name.
I suggest we rename the legislation one of the following:
College for Gang-Bangers Act
Coke-Heads to College Act
College for Criminals Act
Degrees for Dealers Act
Meth-Head Matriculation Act
Sex-Offender to Student Act
Rapist to BMOC Act
Bachelors for Burglars Act
Ganstas to Graduates Act
rawdogger ..
Does college age thugs (Gang Bangers) work for you?
Occam … Great list.
Tribune deleted my post because I said the act should be titled Gang Bangers to college act.
First of all- college age adults- because that is what they are-
and apparently this site is made of people who have never made a mistake.
@Paul Mac- yes, you are inundated with stories of sexual violence on college campus- and college currently ask the question- so it is not a deterrent.
How about college age white suburban kids who got busted drinking under age- funny none of you assumed this is impacting young people from your community who are paying for a poor decision.
Here’s a first.
Common sense tells us that Inish is actually right.
My question is where is the legislation to have a referendum on removing the public pension guarantee from our Constitution?
How about legislation to repeal closed union shops in the public sector?
How about legislation repealing Prevailing wage laws?
How about legislation creating term limits?
How about legislation removing all fringe benefits for elected officials?
What is Barb’s response? More ‘feel good’ bs!
Meanwhile the median family income in our state continues to decline as the higher paying jobs are replaced with lower paying jobs.
Not a good idea Barb.
cautious? If you are going to go for things that would actually do some good…
How about legislation to remove the mandates that put fluoride in our drinking water?
THAT is actually killing all of us.
The other items on the list will do no good when we are all dead.
First things first?
Fluoride kills you. GMOs kill you.
Climate Change kills you.
Guns walk around killing people.
Chem trails kill people.
Cars go out of control and kill people.
People kill people.
Too much food kills you.
Not enough food kills you.
Vaccines kill you.
Illegal drugs kill you.
On and on and on to make everyone live in fear of at least one thing.
Meanwhile, life expectancy increases.
In 1950 life expectancy was 68.2.
Lat year it was almost 79 years on average.
Maybe we should encourage people to start smoking again to reduce life expectancy?
Personally I am not too worried about the fluoride.
I too would like to see it taken out of our water supply but if we do not fix this financial mess we have created in our state, you will have a problem paying for that fluroide contaminated water if you are forced to remain in this State.
What a libtard!!!
Who told her to do this?
She’s not smart enough to come up such a degenerate scheme like this on her own.
Will she send an apology note to the parents of a college girl raped and murdered by a baboon who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault when he was 16, and who somehow managed to get into a college on a full federal ride despite poor standardized test scores?
Barb Salvi-Wheeler must GO!!!!!!
You elect a former union schoolteacher and expect her to do what exactly?
As any good Democrat, she spends her days musing of things to do, that are for your own good you see.
For her “to go’ we must find a replacement or she will become a permanent tenant of Springfield like Jack Franks and his sidekick, Pam Althoff.
All three of them were uncontested in the primary.
I wonder how many people realize that the IMRF inquisition being conducted on behalf of Jack Franks and Operating Engineers Local 150 is meant to discourage GOOD people who had intended to run for County Board?
Mike Madigan wants people like Jeff Lichte in Springfield. Mike does not want a Steve Reick or an Allen Skillicorn and would spend a million dollars to stop a Paul Serwatka.
Just look at what he did to Dunkin.
The following is a bit off topic but in a way related.
HUD has just released new guidelines relative to leasing to criminals.
If you are in the housing / apartment rental business you may want to read it.
If are involved in government any where, you may want to read it.
Here is the link:
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=HUD_OGCGuidAppFHAStandCR.pdf
Here is one of the paragraphs:
Who cares Barb, what about the states fiscal problem.
Perhaps you should spend more time worrying about that than on some feel good tangent.
This might be of interest to you Cindy:
Tryon was also successful on Monday in advancing HB 4688, an initiative that would bring local water supply fluoridation guidelines in line with recommendations set forth by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At the federal level, recommended fluoride levels for public water supplies was recently moved to 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water from the previous range of 0.7 to 1.2 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water.
Tryon said.
Connect?
It’s a slow kill.
I’m not talking about living in fear.
I am talking about the quality of life going down and being sick all the time and all for naught.
That’s what our legislators should be working against NOT for! Most of those other things are a choice.
I don’t choose to ingest rat poison.
Why would our government choose to feed it to us in our water supply?
The financial mess has a direct correlation to the disintegrating health of eeveryone that is being slowly poisoned.
Our legislators are playing fast and loose with crazy non vital legislations.
Where is our champion of the people?
YoungMan?
I had been dogging Mike for years begging him to be a spokesman to get rid of this neurotoxin in our water.
He actually told me that he thought it was a good thing and some people like it in the water.
(I have the emails to prove it.)
We pay for the rat poison they are dumping on us.
A total travesty of governance.
AN other idea from Springfield.
Like Jack asking how to fish with a pitch fork… REALLY?
What about the BUDGET!!!!
I want to here them talk about fixing and voting on a BUDGET!!!
As President of the Conviction Club, I would like to announce that applications are being taken for:
A) most violent offender committee chairperson
B) most depraved committee chairperson
C) expungement fundraising chairperson
D) shameless coordinator
E) erase the stain community outreach
In addition to these positions we will be offering the following presentations:
1) effective identity theft techniques;
2) the new mugging – how to improve your skills;
3) holding rallies to be offended by our convictions
4) hash brownie bake off:
5) ransomeware – a how to for today’s technology
6) a special talk with Barb Wheeler.
As usual our big event this year will be Rape on the Quad.
All this possible because of the libtards in Springfield.
The idea that a criminal conviction was an intended stain on a person’s reputation is lost on Barb.
Perhaps the legislature should rethink every micro offense they criminalize.
For instance you can now be convicted of a felony for Speeding.
The government in over criminalizing so many things leaves the People in defense of their rights and liberties.
Barb, go back to Springfield and decide what crimes and punishments don’t make sense.
Then you would not have to pander to the criminals.
I’m wondering if any of you bothered to read the story.
I know words can be complicated things and can be difficult to understand when they are strung together in combinations.
It protects people that were
a) arrested and not convicted,
b) people that have been convicted and the records have been sealed
c) people that have been convicted, but their records have been expunged
d) consider information about any arrest or criminal accusation of an individual that was followed by a termination of that criminal action or proceeding in favor of the individual.
This seems like a fairly compassionate bill that would prevent college applicants from being hindered by the yolk of guilt for an arrest in which there was no conviction or the conviction was expunged or sealed.
For your reading pleasure I am posting a link to the EXPUNGEMENT AND SEALING A RECORD
Overview:
https://www.illinois.gov/osad/Expungement/Documents/Crinminal%20Exp%20Guide/ExpungementSealingOverview.pdf
I expect that the debate will be fact based going forward.
Angiogram .. and the question remains.
Would you want your loved ones to attend a University where these “protected people” are freely admitted?
One cannot avoid the analogy of undocumented immigrants that commit felonies, and for whatever reason,(e.g. Sanctuary Cities and Law Enforcement failures) are allowed to remain in our country.
The most publicized is the Kate Steinly murder.
What consideration or compassion was shown to her family?
What could be said to a family whose loved one attending any university was attacked or murdered by a person whose record was expunged or sealed?
This discussion should continue using logic and historical evidence, not emotion.
Paul- I’ll defer to the link that I provided.
You may like the anaology, it’s irrelevant to this bill.
If someone is arrested and convicted they would be exempt from the protection that the law would extend.
Murder is not a seal-able or expungable offense.
Agreed- sometimes police make a mistake which results in someone getting away with something; sometimes people are arrested but never convicted because the police make a mistake in arresting the wrong person, or the evidence is so weak that the arrested person cannot be tried or convicted.
You could also argue that people that commit crimes get away with it free and clear; they are never arrested because the police cannot identify the offender.
Should we then require all college applicants to undergo a lie detector prior to being accepted?
@Angiogram– don’t try to use fact or logic- it doesn’t fit the preordained opinions.
@angiogram You neglect to read/understand the entire bill. An individual could be CONVICTED of rape, homicide, etc. and a college MAY NOT inquire of or consider those facts in the admission process.
They may only ask about it AFTER they admit the person and then for the sole purpose of offering support counseling and services [to that individual].
BIG difference!
From the article above:
Awww snap.
Caught in my own trap.
Curses…
Maybe some of her campaign workers expressed an interest in going back to school, Hah!
WORK ON THE BUDGET, LADY!
Do your job.
This is BS.
The budget is at the control of Madigan, Cullerton and the Governor.
What would you have her do?
Lots of ridiculousness in this thread.
The most ironic is that you think that Rep. Wheeler shouldn’t be working on anything other than the budget.
If that is true, I assume that you also think that Bruce Rauner shouldn’t be demanding non-budgetary items before passing a budget, right?
But, second, ya’ll don’t seem to be able to read very basic legislation.